The Glens ended their campaign with a thumping 5-0 victory over Kello last week.

The win moved Glens onto 40 points - three better than last year.

The season also saw the club reach its first Scottish Cup semi-final in 38 years, with only eventual winners Auchinleck Talbot stopping them getting to the showpiece game.

It’s been a rollercoaster campaign, but one that has ended in eventual disappointment as Glens promotion dream died as they tried to play catch-up following their cup run.

Willie said: “At the start of the season we said anything other than promotion is failure, so the season has been a failure.

“I’m not faulting the players because circumstances with the cup and what not have gone against us.

“We’ve had games called off and had long-term injuries at important times of the season.

“We didn’t make excuses during the season though and I won’t start now.

“We haven’t been good enough to go up when we should have been. Hopefully next season will be different.”

Glens final game saw them climb to fifth place although Yoker could yet push them down to sixth.

After a miserable run of games, Willie admits it was pleasing to end the season on a high.

He said: “We played really well. We passed it about well and played some good football.

“The difference between that game and Maybole was rather than just passing sideways we got the ball forward. It was a nice way to finish the season.”

The job of building a squad for next term has now begun.

Willie is set to meet with the management team Joe Pryce and Rab Torrance tonight (Wednesday) to see who will be offered a contract and who will be told their services are no longer required.

One player who has definitely played his final game is Andy McClay who retired after the victory over Kello, a moment he marked with a rare goal.

In terms of players for next season, Kevin Bell, Denis McLaughlin and Jamie Docherty are under contract for another year while Dean Muir and Kieran Downs both have eight months to run on their deals.

Brett Agnew and Andy Neil recently signed up until 2015 and Sean McGuire and Brian Eadie have both indicated their intention to stay.

Willie will be speaking to other players over the next few days as well as starting the chase for new players to arrive at the Clyde Gateway Stadium.

He said: “We still need to go through everything and finalise everything. We’ll start to do that from Wednesday onwards.

“We’ve got some players we’re hoping to speak too between now and the end of next week.

“Obviously Andy (McClay) went with our blessings. He knows himself he can’t play the amount of games he used too. I think he’ll make the move into coaching and he would be a very good acquisition for any club.

“He’s been a good professional. He maybe didn’t play the number of games he wanted too, or we wanted him too, but when he has played he’s been superb.